This fundraiser unfolds alongside Angie Aniwura’s first exhibition, carrying visitors through illness, spirituality, renewal and collective embodiment without reducing any part of that journey to a single narrative.

The page holds four connected layers at once: Angie’s healing journey, the exhibition and artworks, the Macmillan fundraiser, and the Pryntd x Iya Beji experience that preserves how the work is encountered, felt and shared.

This fundraiser is happening alongside Angie Aniwura’s first exhibition, which follows her journey through illness, spirituality and renewal. After a hysterectomy in 2013, she turned to Yorùbá spirituality for grounding. In 2023, breast cancer deepened her need for presence, connection and the steadying force of community.

At the centre of the exhibition are six Ìbejì paintings created with artist and spiritual healer Lucy SM Johnston. They evoke the sacred twin orisha and the bond between seen and unseen worlds. Yorùbá storytelling by Peju Alatise and the guidance of mentor Jelili Atiku widen that circle, while Oshun’s energy of rebirth, renewal and resurrection moves quietly through the work.

The Aniwura Collective’s photographs and artworks quietly trace Angie’s healing journey, so that recovery becomes something embodied rather than abstract. Macmillan’s support has also been part of that journey, and this fundraiser honours that care by giving back to the charity that stood alongside her.

Grounding

After hysterectomy, Yorùbá spirituality becomes a place of grounding, resilience and transformed meaning.

Presence

Breast cancer intensifies the need for connection, while the Ìbejì paintings deepen into trust, ritual and exchange.

Communal giving

Recovery becomes embodied through the collective, and the fundraiser returns support to Macmillan in gratitude.

“Pryntd not only captures this, it makes you live and relive the experience, making it accessible to all in perpetuity.”

Pryntd x Iya Beji

Pryntd captures the experience as a multi-dimensional, multi-perspective, multi-perception, multi-streaming experience with interactions. It holds how people move around the art, where they pause, how they gather, what draws them closer, and how they encounter one another in the room. What is preserved is not mere documentation, but atmosphere, participation, emotion and perspective.

Within that living layer, moments of collective behaviour become part of the work’s meaning. The steffdies moment, which travelled as a social media sensation, where everyone lies face down and motionless, sits in powerful conversation with the exhibition’s spiritual and emotional focus. In the space, it reads as collective stillness, surrender and reflection, complementing the exhibition’s attention to vulnerability, mortality, witness and return.

Oshun, one of the goddesses of the Yorùbá pantheon, is associated here with rebirth, renewal and resurrection. Her energy offers a deeper key to Angie’s story of re-emergence, survival and return. Pryntd bridges physical and digital presence, extending accessibility and participation so the experience can be entered again and again rather than disappearing with the closing of the room.

“The mutual understanding among these artists is an unspoken language that feels immediate, a recognition carried through presence alone.”

Lison Sabrina Musset

During my research curating this exhibition, I realised the mutual understanding among these artists is an unspoken language that feels immediate: a recognition that happens through presence alone, through sight, through shared spiritual alignment. I first met Angie whilst producing a group exhibition she was part of last year, and I immediately felt that same instant connection, as if we had known each other for a long time. I might have been part of that sacred resonance.

Lucy’s photographic session from that same year captured what now feels prophetic: the strength and spiritual power of Iyalabaji embodied in Angie even before her breast cancer diagnosis, and before the fundraiser, the exhibition and the wider shared experience gathered around her.

At the centre of the exhibition and fundraiser, carrying the work’s arc from illness to renewal.

Collaborator on the six Ìbejì paintings, shaping the dialogue between seen and unseen worlds.

Extends the symbolic and emotional field of the exhibition through Yorùbá storytelling.

Part of the guiding circle around the work, offering presence, perspective and continuity.

Part of the photographic witness through which healing, atmosphere and community are held.

Contributes to the collective image-making that traces the exhibition as embodied recovery.

Helps build the wider visual record and shared spatial memory around the work.

Part of the collective constellation that makes recovery visible through relation and witness.

Contributes to the embodied archive that carries the exhibition beyond a single moment.

Support the page as fundraiser, exhibition and immersive experience together: a living circle of care that moves from private endurance into shared generosity.